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GANOPY STANDARD POR VEHICLES.

No. 270,517. Patented Jan. 9,1883.

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NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO UNZICKER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ADOLPH SHOENINGER, OF SAME PLACE.

`CANOPYHSTANDARD FOR VEHICLES.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters- Patent No. 270,517, dated January 9, 1883.

Application filed June 28, 1882.

` thereof, reference being hadlto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part ot' this specitication.

The object ot' my invention is to produce a rear standard for supporting the canopy-top of a baby-carriage, which will be lso constructed that the top can be readily adjusted to any desired position or angle, and can be tixed readily at anypoint, so as to 'shield the child from the rays ofthe sun and from the weather, and that lthe adjustment ot' such standard can be easily accomplished by any unskilled person.

My invention consists of a standard iliade rigid with the back ot' the baby-carriage body, the end ot' which t'orms an angular knucklejoint with a curved horizontal bar, and the forward end of such horizontal bar again forming a joint with the front end of a bar that is tixed to the under side of the canopy-top, and boh joints being arranged to be tightened each by a thumb-screw, all as will be more fully hereinafter described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l representsa sectional side elevation ot achilds carriage having myimproved standard for supportingthe canopytop; Fig. 2, an end view ofthe foot end ot' the standard as attached t-o the back-board ot' the carriage-body, and Fig. 3 a sectional View of one of the knuckle-joints of the standard.

Corresponding letters in the several ligures ot the drawings designate like parts.

A denotes the carriage-body, against the rear of which is secured, by three Wood-screws, the lower spider-plate, a, ot the standard B. This standard B is vertical, and has to its top an eye, b, the face of which is to be concave, and isto be on an angle with the standard of about forty-tive degrees. Against the upper concave face of eye b of standard B is secured the eye c of a bar, C, that is horizontal and has a curved rear end, which brings the eye c to an angle of aboutforty-tive degrees therewith. The eyes b and c are secured one to the (No model.)

| other by a bolt, D, having a half-round head,

a cylindrical shank under such head where it passes through eye 0, and that is squared where it passes through the square hole in eye b, and has a screw-threaded end with a thumb-nut. E. In this manner thc eyes b and c of bars B and C form a knuckle-joint for adjusting the two bars on any desired angle by tightening the thumb-nut E. The forward end ot' bar C is also provided with an eye, d, that is ot' corresponding shape with eye b of bar B, and forms a knuckle-joint with an eye, e, of a bracket-bar, F, which, with its rear end, is rigidly secured under about the middle of canopy-top G. These eyes cl and e are adjustably secured together by a bolt, D, and thumb-nut E in the same manner as eyes b and c.

\Vit.h the above standard the canopy-top can be adjusted to occupy a position relative to the carriage-body to be above, at either side, at the rear, or front of the child occupying the carriage by simply loosening one or both thumb-nuts, by swinging` the canopy-top to the desired position, and then by tightening such thumb-nuts again.

As will be noticed, the device is of neat appearance, is simple and durable in its construction, and is easyr to handle t'or adjustment.

\Vhat I claim isl. In childrens carriages, the canopytop G, having bracket-bar F, that is connected by a knuckle-joint to bar C, which again by an angular knuckle-joint is adjustably secured to the upper extremity of a standard that is rigidly fastened to the rear ot' the carriage-body, all substantially as and t'or the purpose set t'orth.

2. In childrens carriages, the combination of the rigid standard B, having angular eye l),

the horizontal bar C, having angular eye c and eye d, and the bracket-bar F ot' canopy-top G, having eye e, the eyes b and c and the eyes d and e being connected each by a bolt, D, having thumb-nut E, to form adjustable knuckles between the bars B, C, and F, all substantially as and for the purpose described and shown.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 1

. OTTO ,UNZICKER Witnesses:

CHARLES J. BENTLEY, H. HUEHL.

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